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York UK/19th Oct. 2004/Press release/All Media/

Cystitis Antibiotics Damaging Women’s Health, but New Solution Offers Hope

The standard current treatment for bladder infections and UTIs is antibiotics. However, antibiotics are damaging women’s health, and this is something that concerns health professionals, says John Bremner, partner in Sweet Cures, the UK based company that provides the alternative cystitis treatment, Waterfall D-Mannose.

Antibiotics save millions of lives every year, but there is a dark side to the use of antibiotics that is not so well known, says John Bremner, one of the partners in Sweet Cures of York in the UK. For example, did you know that there is a commonly used antibiotic that has the potential to kill, like ecstasy, on the very first dose you take?

“The trouble with antibiotics,” Mr Bremner says, “is that they are seen as a panacea, and most people start begging for antibiotics as soon as they get ill. Doctors tell us that they are already under huge pressures at work, and just don’t have the time to argue. It’s easier to give in, and as likely as not the antibiotic will do the job, and not kill the patient.”

Although more doctors are now ordering Waterfall D-Mannose for their patients, many still rely on the allopathic treatments that they learned at medical school. “They know of the risks, and they hope that their patients will not be the ones suffering the side effects,” Mr Bremner comments.

Side-effects

Most antibiotics, like all drugs, have some adverse effects, and the side-effects of some commonly used antibiotics can be very dangerous.
Plus, the bacteria that typically affect us are growing more and more resistant to antibiotics, with the result that there are now E.coli bugs, like the potentially deadly strain, 0157:H7 that are resistant to almost everything medically available, including broad-spectrum antibiotics. See http://www.usingdmannose.co.uk/HealthArticles/knowledge-base/ecoli-superbug.htm

Doctors end up having to prescribe huge doses of antibiotics with cumulative and sometime permanent harmful side-effects.

Anna McNamara, the other partner of Sweet Cures, has herself suffered severe side effects as a result of taking antibiotics. “Modern broad-spectrum antibiotics commonly used to treat bladder infections and UTIs are chemotherapy by another name,” she says, “and women just don’t seem to realise the dangers. But we get so many customers telling us the same stories, and suffering the same side effects, that we have become experts at recognising the signs. They are saying, 'I've got these incredible joint pains', 'I've got fibrous lumps in my muscles', 'my tendons are stiff. I can't lift up my arms, and my ankles hurt when I'm walking', 'I'm getting ME like symptoms and just seem permanently exhausted', 'I get a lot of intestinal pain', and 'I just can't seem to think clearly anymore'.”

The Dangers

According to Drug Watch, adverse affects are reported by 35% of women using antibiotics. However, the side effects are often delayed, with the result that both patients and doctors do not associate new symptoms with the antibiotics that have caused those symptoms. For example, fluorine poisoning after taking fluoroquinolene-based antibiotics is often misdiagnosed as reactive arthritis, or fibromyalgia, and an accurate diagnosis of fluorodosis/fluorosis is difficult to make without specialist knowledge.

“Add to this,” John Bremner says, “a natural reluctance on the part of doctors to diagnose a condition that their prescription was responsible for causing, and you have a growing problem. While it’s true that most people don’t have the more severe side-effects, if you are one of the unlucky ones, you can be permanently damaged. Fluorodosis, for example, causes severe joint pains, as your body tries to deal with the excess fluorine in your system by depositing it on your bones and joints. It’s also very difficult to treat, and the effects are cumulative.”
See 'Calls Mount for a Black Box Warning on Fluoroquinolenes' :

Other side-effects that range through the (mainly) broad-spectrum antibiotics often used against resistant E.coli type infections include tendon tearing, heart attack, heart murmur, palpitations, angina, cerebral thrombosis, sudden death on first dose, liver failure, jaundice, gastrointestinal bleeding, diarrhoea, ulcerative colitis, burst intestine, vomiting, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, anaphylactic shock, skin dying or falling off, dermatitis, vasculitis, angioedema, swelling of the lips, eyes, or face, fever, chills, lupus, and going purple.
See Antibiotic Side Effects

Seen as a Threat?

Alternative treatments may still be still seen as a threat in the UK by some medical practitioners, and particularly by the pharmaceutical industry who influence them, but Anna McNamara says that Waterfall D-Mannose is gradually breaking through these barriers, as a result of people going back to their doctors after years of cystitis problems, telling them they have found a natural cure.

“More and more doctors are interested in a way to flush E.coli from the bladder completely,” Anna says, “rather than just kill off some and leave resistant E.coli to begin to repopulate the bladder with their resistant clones.”

Sweet Cures has already helped thousands of women solve their cystitis problems without antibiotics, and more and more people are looking for alternative therapies when antibiotics fail them.

Further information: Sweet Cures, York, UK. Tel: +44 (0) 1904-789559. Email: enquiries-not-spam@waterfall-Waterfall D-Mannose.com.
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